Hango Peninsula

The Hango Peninsula is a peninsula located in southern Finland, known for its outlying archipelago and its sandy beaches. The Russian Empire fought against Sweden at the Battle of Gangut on the peninsula on 7 August 1714 during the Great Northern War, and the peninsula would see more fighting during the Finnish Civil War (during which German troops landed there to fight against the Finnish Red Guards in 1918). The Soviet Union secured a lease on the peninsula in early 1941 after the Winter War, but Finland retook the peninsula in December 1941 as the 25,000 Soviet Red Army troops withdrew.